Learning To Process Emotions Is A Live-Long Skill Part One

Learning To Process Emotions Is A Live-Long Skill  Part One

By Bart Sharp

Many of us spend hours regularly processing emotions that we experience in our lives.  It is in the belief that if we come to a place of resolve with them that we would be happier and/or be more present in our lives.  Processing emotions is a skill that many have difficulty doing especially if they were not taught as children to identify what they were feeling.  Millions have difficulty processing their emotions so if you perceive that you fit in this category do not feel alone.

Processing emotions is both an intellectual skill as well as a body experience.  We may be able to express the emotion, recall the memory related to the feeling but have no real connection to it in our body.   Which may make us feel disconnected to the experience itself as well as our own body.

Being able to perceive emotions includes feeling the whole experience in our physical body.  It is feeling where our body feels uncomfortable when we are upset and all of our bodily reactions included.  When we do this we teach ourselves to be more present in our body.  The more we live with this kind of awareness anger does feel more intense but so does joy and happiness.   We begin the process of leaving the life of muddled emotions where we feel little and remain in a mundane expression of our feelings to a fuller range of ourselves.

One of the keys to breaking out of the mundane life is learning to feel the emotions of our past.  What we have suppressed emotionally is often one of the blocks that are holding us back from feeling ourselves.  If we can tap into those energetic memories on a body level we can begin the process of releasing them for good.  Our cognitive recall of these experiences only gives us the information from our mind we have to address what our body has stored away for them to really go.